I have compressed this essay into a few pages. Had it been possible I would have reduced it to as many lines. It is not intended to be an instructional treatise, but a practical recipe for getting out of trouble. Study and research are well in their own time and place, but no amount of […]
Annie Rix Militz (1904) The well-balanced mind manifests as evenness in temperament, wherein are no seasons of moodiness or moments of discouragement, down-heartedness, or gloom in any form. Students who have times when they feel melancholy – have a “fit of the blues,” hearts that are heavy when days are gray, bodies that feel themselves
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The world is full of “New Thought” Literature. It is helpful and inspiring to read. It is worth many dollars to any one who will live its philosophy. I talked to a man who has been studying along these lines for some years. He said: – “Oh, I know all that philosophy, it is nothing new. I
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William Atkinson (1901) In these days of toxin and antitoxins —of poison in sausages, oysters, canned beef, ice cream—of antitoxin serums (that often are more deadly than the original toxin) for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever, tetanus, bubonic plague, diphtheria, and the rest of the list, it requires courage to call
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Are you unhappy? Stop and ask yourself why. If you have a great sorrow, time will be your consoler. And there is an ennobling and enriching effect of sorrow well borne. It is the education of the soul. But if you are unhappy over petty worries and trials, you are wearing yourself to no avail;
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Among the schools of the new thought there appears a division of opinion as to the practicability of the famous counsel of the Man of Nazareth. “ I say unto you that ye resist not evil.” Many writers emphasize “Resist not” — and demonstrate its power by overcoming much evil in the forms of sin
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I have a letter from an “orthodox Christian,” who says the only hope for humanity lies in the “old-fashioned religion.” Then he proceeds to tell me how carefully he has studied human nature, “in business, in social life, and in himself,” and that he finds it all vile—selfish—sinful. Of course he does, because he studies
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In that wonderful moving picture, “The Thief of Baghdad,” we were told in letters of light that happiness must be earned! It is earned through perfect control of the emotional nature.There can be no happiness where there is fear, apprehension or dread. With perfect faith in God comes a feeling of security and happiness. When
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By Abel Allen (1914) Man can acquire truth only as he is mentally and spiritually prepared to receive it. New Thought is anchored to the idea of finding the good and the beautiful in life, the development of latent possibilities in man, and that law reigns supreme in the universe. Anchored to these principles, New
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William Atkinson. Many of us are accustomed to thinking of ourselves on the physical plane alone. When we think of the Ego—the “I” of ourselves, we picture it as a human body with organs ranging from the finest—the brain, down to those of coarser atomic structure. To one living on this plane of consciousness the
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